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mostly lurking and making a following page with things i want to see

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20h
“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.
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mr pussy (prison arc) @nat.haus · 29/09/2026
racially 👏 inclusive 👏 goatse 👏 wall 👏 charger 👏
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do not have children but I would like the lives of parents to be made easier with the abundance of wealth we have in this country because, say it with me now, we live in a society. Thank you.
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Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 29/09/2026
Remaining schedule:
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Ben Natan @thebennatan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can’t stop wars. Cant stop the president committing nonstop crime. Can’t do anything about Epstein. Or cost of living. Or the environment. They can fuck over workers though. They’ll do that real fast.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I work at the newspaper and just wrote The Great Awokening is over, I’m both 79 and 12 years old and make 260,000 dollars a year from a man who sent Katy Perry into space on a rocket ship. As you can see, everyone else is the problem.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Not really the point, but I'd suggest that if you own 20 "family farms," they probably aren't "family farms."
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sam Altman "no...wait we just wanted more money..."
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has proposed a 20-year prison sentence for AI developers who move forward with Artificial Superintelligence plans, a penalty comparable to illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.
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Paolo Bacigalupi @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I used to be really excited about technology. I don't think it's me that's changed.
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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Quick question: Which of those groups is raising ticket prices, concessions, and making it impossible to watch the teams without spending a small fortune?
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/09/2026
This is the single biggest physics discovery of my entire lifetime. Or something's wrong with one of the cables. One of the two
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you.
Milo Yiannopoulos: "I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America. The manner in which they arrest you, they put you in manacles, everybody is arrested like an MS 13 gang member. 
It was physically degrading. It was frightening. I don't think I've ever been frightened like that before. I was weeping like an old woman for an hour. I wouldn't wish it on anyone."
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
Amazing number of people lately who are willing to stand up and say I’m the villain, you should hate me
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/08/2026
You see a lot of glib analysts repeating the line that "Americans just don't want EVs" without taking into consideration that the US auto buying experience is dominated by a network of extremely ignorant, Republican car dealers dependent on the kind of maintenance that EVs don't need.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Imagine having enough cases of bestiality in your recruits that you have to loosen hiring rules to get enough of them in.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
imagine an orphan crushing machine. i hate the machine and i hope we can dismantle it. but if the man who helped build the orphan crushing machine falls into it? buddy i’m gonna crack a smile.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As with American culture, Dolly sought to represent the best of what southern culture can be, in defiance of the no-good peckerwood assholes who try to define it at its worst
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i want everyone with a teeny bit of finance background to think about what it means financially for a company if they had ten billion dollars of something, they depreciated it over 5 years and it turns out its useful lifetime is at least 10
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 13/08/2026
kids today are literally confused about whether "partying" was real or an urban legend
From Reddit: 

> Did millennials really party all the time?

> Gen Z here. I was shocked when I found out from a millennial co-worker that y’all had teen clubs. I heard about house parties, but dedicated teen clubs? Then when it was time for college, you went to the club or had some kind of party every single weekend, living it up. Now some millennials on TikTok claim that after college, they were partying on work nights, still clocking in the next day. For some reason, the teen clubs have since disappeared. I’m 23 now but even when I was in high school, that was not a thing. House parties were not that common either. They were more like get togethers with a small group of friends. We went to malls, but they were dying out at that point. Is it true that you were really living life this good? Or is it just exaggerated? I feel like my generation doesn’t really have fun like that and everyone is just super depressed and alone, more so since Covid. Even I’m pretty introverted, which sort of sounds ridiculous given this post. 😂 Just so you know, when I think of a “millennial party” I think of something out of Party Rock Anthem, Project X or Roderick’s party from the second DOAWD movie. It’s like I get nostalgia from something I didn’t even live through. I just feel like I didn’t really LIVE, if that even makes sense
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I need you to consider how funny his first appearance would have been after Iran killed a plane full of journalists plus, say, Marco Rubio. Picture his face not even hinting at the idea that he should show sympathy or empathy. Instead, a goofy pride that he tricked them. He can't stop grinning
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Musk should be forced to use his personal wealth to clean it up. Clean the moon, you dead eyed haddock-faced bitch. What do you mean it's too hard? you were going to have a city living on Mars as soon as 8 years ago. Do it by Tuesday.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
You guys, nominating the person who earned the most votes is now an “ideological purity test.”
usatoday • 4h
Opinion: If Democrats let a winnable House and Senate slip away over ideological purity, they'll only have their own primary voters to blame.
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Democrats are poised to blow a winnable midterm | Opinion
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Jason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Those of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem:
Joe Sheehan: This trade is a microcosm of the real problem MLB has faced for decades. It’s not about haves and have-nots, but wants and want-nots. The Dodgers, and teams like them, want to win more than teams like the Tigers do, so they go out and acquire the Tigers’ best pitcher. MLB has built an entire labor strategy and media campaign around demonizing the Dodgers, when in fact it’s the Tigers who are wrecking baseball. You have to be through the looking glass to think the sport’s problem is the team that’s trying to win rather than the team that’s trading Tarik Skubal while sitting 2 1/2 games out of a playoff spot.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Billionaires being unafraid to say things like this publicly is a major indicator of how bad things have gotten
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Their plan is to say as little as possible and win by default, which in their mind is the safest path that doesn't alienate anyone. This misses the opportunity to galvanize the public around important issues, and then they throw up their hands about how the voters are ignorant and apathetic
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Peter Clines @peterclines.com · 13/07/2026
Nice work, everyone! Keep it up!
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The Backlash Is So Strong That People With "Pervert Glasses" Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
Meta's camera-equipped "AI Glasses" are so divisive that some adopters are reportedly leaving their expensive smart glasses at home.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 12/07/2026
"Oh, I know from personal experience this man was capable of great compassion, wisdom and empathy even though he never chose to demonstrate any of these qualities when doing his very important job that impacts millions of people." That's worse, right? You get how that's worse?
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Whether this story is apocryphal or not, how we shit on Lindsay Graham today matters. Other Quislings who are still alive and enabling Trump need to know how they will be remembered if they don’t turn on him immediately. This is the legacy that awaits them all.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I wish it were more broadly understood that Trump constantly and explicitly holds up his naked corruption *as a badge of honor* that his supporters are supposed to thrill to (and see benefit for themselves in). He thinks corruption is the highest form of winning.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Seems the real problem centrist democrats are facing right now is the people are being very clear that they want leaders who will solve their biggest problems, and centrist democrats really don't want to solve their biggest problems and hate the people for wanting that. It's a real pickle for them.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.
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I worked at Smithsonian, specifically raising money for 250th. What I want people to know is we secured millions of private philanthropy to host a month long Folklife Festival on the mall, "The Festival of Festivals". Was going to feature well known festivals, think Burning Man, Farm Aid, Grand Ole Oprey etc. as well as smaller local and regional festivals from across the U.S. and territories. Goal was to feature truly the best and most beautiful creative expression in music, dance, arts and craft traditions, food, community etc. Can't name names but plan was to have headliners every night for free concerts.... Think the types of names who might be affiliated with the aforementioned large festivals. Stars were willing to perform because was under banner of Smithsonian. It had to all be scrapped bc the administration would not release permits to host on the mall. The money went elsewhere, but our nation was robbed of what would have been a once in a generation cultural moment.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/06/2026
"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/06/2026
to be clear, this fascist shit is happening because the king told a lie about vandalism and they're retroactively arresting people to try to make it seem like it's true
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick
MARINE ECOLOGIST MONA
KHALIL HAS PASSED AWAY
AFTER SUSTAINING INJURIES IN AN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKEMona and a turtle in Lebanon
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This is who Israel murdered There are literally hundreds if not thousands of sea turtles that were given a chance to survive thanks to Mona Khalil. She’s been doing this work for over two decades. And Israel murdered her
Photos of Mona and turtles

Caption: MONA CHOSE TO STAY AN CARE FOR THE TURTLES OF TYRE: HER LIFE WAS
SELFLESS AND IMPACTRULPhotos of Mona and turtles

Caption: MONA WASN'T ONLY PROTECTING TURTLES. SHE WAS PROTECTING A COASTLINE, AN ECOSYSTEM, AND A WAY OF LIFE DEEPLY CONNECTED TO THE SOUTH OF LEBANONPhoto of turtles

FOR MORE THAN TWC DECADES, MONA DEVOTED HER LIFE TO PROTECTING THE SEA TURTLES THAT NEST ALONG LEBANON'S SOUTHERN COASTPhoto of Mona
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Bentzburgh @bentzburgh.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Donald Trump inheriting a situation that was suboptimal but honestly fine, deciding to personally intervene, and making everything significantly worse at great taxpayer expense is a perfect synopsis of every single thing he has done as president both times.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Last year, Evanston, Illinois terminated its Flock contract and removed the cameras. Flock *put them back up* and reactivated them. Then Evanston put trash bags around them. Flock says: "legal conditions may prevent a city from voiding the contract without grounds to do so"
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 28/05/2026
This makes it clear that the value for Flock isn't the money they are being paid by governments for the cameras, it's the data generated by the recordings that they can monetize elsewhere. Otherwise they'd be fine with getting paid without the cameras being up.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Not only is Trump the most corrupt president in U.S. history, you could make a persuasive case that about a dozen things he has done this term would earn him that title even if he’d done nothing else. And we’ve learned about two of those things just in the past week.
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